And it is Oscar Season. And – that means it’s time for my Extra-Credit viewing of the Best Picture Nominees.
I am slightly less enthusiastic about it this year, since there are two films on this list which I was not even remotely interested in seeing otherwise; and one of them I may actively hate (it’s a sequel, I hated the original).
So those films are:
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Fabelmans
- Tár
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Triangle of Sadness
- Women Talking
One of these I’ve already seen and I love. A handful of the others I’ve been planning to see anyway.
But Avatar….
(sigh)
Y’all, I hated Avatar when I saw it. HATED IT. Yeah sure okay the visuals were fantastic, but it was the stupidest damn story and that made me want to spit tacks. And several of the reviews for Way of Water I’ve seen….say that it’s basically the same damn story.
I may skip it on general principle.
The Movie Crash Course 